Models and cognition : prediction and explanation in everyday life and in science /

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"In this book, Jonathan Waskan challenges cognitive science's dominant model of mental representation and proposes a novel, well-devised alternative. The traditional view in the cognitive sciences uses a linguistic (propositional) model of mental representation. This logic-based model of c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Waskan, Jonathan A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Philosophy of mind.
Cognitive science.
Cognition.
Philosophy.
Cognitive Science
Cognition
Models, Psychological
Philosophy
Philosophie de l'esprit.
Sciences cognitives.
Psychologie > Méthodes de simulation.
Philosophie.
cognition.
philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Mind & Body.
Cognitive science
Philosophy of mind
Cognitiewetenschap.
Verklaring.
Mentale representatie.
Filosofie van de geest.
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Thoughts about the mind: past, present, and future
  • Folk psychology and cognitive science
  • Content, supervenience, and cognitive science
  • Dueling metaphors
  • Thinking in its entirety
  • From metaphor to mechanism
  • Models of explanation
  • The model model
  • Mind and world.

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